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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: eschiss1 on Saturday 01 March 2014, 19:11

Title: Bowen chamber works
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 01 March 2014, 19:11
Erm - too recent? Anyhow, York Bowen chamber works on Chandos - here (http://www.recordsinternational.com/cd.php?cd=03P076).
Title: Re: Bowen chamber works
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 01 March 2014, 19:16
Nah, good, late-late romantic stuff:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bowen-Phantasy-Quintet-Piano-Clarinet-Sonata/dp/B00I1KA63C/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bowen-Phantasy-Quintet-Piano-Clarinet-Sonata/dp/B00I1KA63C/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk)
Title: Re: Bowen chamber works
Post by: minacciosa on Sunday 02 March 2014, 08:25
Glad to see it. Bowen deserves much more than this. He had a gift for whatever he put his pen to. How I wish we could recover his 3rd Symphony (radio broadcasts exist), or his 4th (presumed to exist, but misplaced).
Title: Re: Bowen chamber works
Post by: edurban on Sunday 02 March 2014, 17:00
Seconded, minacciosa.  That 3rd symphony is so near, yet so far.  What keen pair of ears will puzzle out a transcription?

David
Title: Re: Bowen chamber works
Post by: minacciosa on Tuesday 04 March 2014, 01:44
It can be done, but it's a LOT of work. Someone would need a grant, for it would be a full-time job.
Title: Re: Bowen chamber works
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 04 March 2014, 02:02
I recall speaking with a friend who has done so for a composer relative's music that was being recorded on the basis of a vocal score, a film soundtrack (to help prepare a score for a film suite (at least) reconstruction recording when the original full score no longer existed or at least was lost) and yes, as one would predict that's very difficult work. (I forget- is there a reduction existing of the Bowen or is all that remains a few broadcasts, sound artifacts?...)